ah, a, the leaders of russia, the u. s. whole crisis towards the mid tensions over ukraine, a rift on security policy. a french police fire, tear gas to break oper, freedom, a convoy rally a central forest is blocked off with checked points and armored vehicles. our correspondence is in the midst of the action. you can see the tape gas isn't coming towards us now. launched by the police just they were trying to control the crowd. and in canada, where the convoy movement started, security forces are facing off against hundreds of truckers blocking via pasadena bridge. a key border crossing with

across the world to run the clock. this is your r tikrit of your company today. i'm, you know, russia has accused us of violating its territorial waters. after on the american nuclear power to attack submarine was spalding off the country's far east post. it comes, it made heightened tension between the 2 powers. i discussed the story with our t. starsky. taylor, sad to say that the story of the week has been the crisis around ukraine. it's what will the headlines are about? politicians got their eyes on its flooding, twitter to one party, which has been ratcheting up the temperature despite all its claims. of course, to be the global leader of diplomacy is washington itself. for months it has been pushing this narrative of russia, the aggressive president, putin finalizing. his plans were on the brink of wild will. 3 at the same time. cool, sending millions of dollars of western rate to ukraine, deploying thousands of troops. nato troops closer to russian borders. diplomacy in

short, as interpreted by the us. on friday though, the white house is rhetoric reach really unprecedented levels of hysteria. and the message that we heard was basically very simple to anyone who is in ukraine and who is, was one of us get out while you can, winter's coming. an invasion could begin at any time. credible prospect that a rushing military action would take place even before the end of the olympics. that includes in the coming days or considerations, should leave should leave now. well, despite the u. s providing upstream no evidence. in fact they were refusing to discuss the intelligence the global community pops on to start to be got scared. so what we then started witnessing in the light of those was, was really a mass exodus from kiya of. so we had dozens of countries in us citizens to leave as quickly as possible kind of a prophylactic evacuation. the dutch airlines as well. taylor has stopped flying to ukraine for the moment. i'm no,

of course even going to mention the media is to send into apocalyptic headlines. it seems that the world has taken washington out. its word. of course though, in the past, we've seen that in the, in the past it's what it's, it's counted for very little. let's remember there's famous claims of saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction was very telling if the wall says this flurry of activity amongst a foreign contingent in ukraine. there are many within ukraine who logic. he should be the ones who are most terrified by these warnings. it was simply not buying washington selling me, who it was hit of i don't believe russia will attack us. i don't believe it. i have friends in sac allan, in crass in the dark. i don't believe it. a years from joining the snow. we hope that won't start, so we're not thinking about leaving ukraine yet. i think there is a good chance that nothing will happen when you, when you come up with what the case is, firstly, where is this information coming from? secondly, russians are sloss and we are a brotherly nation, but we will never be split,

no matter how much the americans want it. and it's not just that i mean and not passing this looked, can't this and seeing it for what it is which is madness. since wash has claim time and time again, that has no plans to talk you. crane at all is the ukranian president himself. now we've heard from him before that people need to seriously tone down the hysteria. but on saturday we had a very clearly frustrated zalinski speaking out, and essentially what he said is, if you're going to come out here with these kinds of obligations, then you need to cough up some evidence yobbos. i think there is too much information being spread around today about a full scale war waged by russia. there is even talk of specific gets most, we understand all the risks. we understand that the risks are there, hasn't, if you or anyone, has any additional information about a 100 chance of an invasion you gave it to us was immune was quite an interesting moment to undermine one suppose that allies in washington like that. but it really, i think, goes to show how zalinski feels that his country is perhaps being used here. i and

when we're talking about washington's political goals and perhaps how to control the situation has become one thing that has remained constant though, is russia denying at that they've any plans to invade ukraine, not spin from day one. and anything new enough front though? well, you know what, it's always this bizarre twist because now it seems that key of and moscow who washington of course, would like us to believe a sworn enemies of the ones who are now on the same page because they seem to shad this opinion. that what washington is now saying is not just completely excessive and hyped up. it's not disrespectful to the people of ukraine. for 2 months, the u. s. has been saying russia is going to attack ukraine any day now. for 2 months, ukraine's president and security services have been saying they don't have such information. and now they're even asking concerned parties to share data. for 2 months. they have been insulting common sense and the ukranian people on that path to carrying out yet another global provocation campaign. and if we're going to talk

about provocation, an american submarine discovered in russian waters unannounced, unapproved, unresponsive to request to leave the apparently, when it was off to surface, to sort of show itself it's scary to weigh very high speeds. but i mean, a minute true vessel in foreign waters at a time when, according to washington, the world peace is hanging on by a thread. i mean, it really does take kind of special level of delusion for the us to do that. and then claim that russia is the one that's being the aggressor, but just find you. what i want to do is just step back in all of this and look at the big picture. because one has to say that for western need is these last couple of months this week especially has been an excellent opportunity. the p. r. you know, you've got president a micro france with elections this year. he's been kind of shocking between moscow and keep trying to present himself as this european peacemaker. he had a cool with pearson this saturday as the president boynton. what that means is that if on, when russia doesn't invade ukraine bite and essentially will be seen as the savior

. you know, he stopped that evil putin in his tracks. he stopped, well, we'll 3, it's a win win situation for the american president. of course he's going to have the backing of the meetings going to china out that headline, meaning that no one and this is what you talk about exactly when, when no one will remember that in sation is that the highest level of 40 is no one is going to remember the afghanistan to pa cool, but by all accounts of pollings believed that was an absolute blood ball the waiting. the democrats in the midterm elections. he will be writing on this wave really until he leaves office and far beyond because he'll be given, talks about it, but simply, it's another day and not the political game well played. and it seems that kind of the stability and mental health for most of the ukrainians was just collateral damage. the substitute taylor, we are sort of guests for their views on washington's humbling of the ukraine crisis. i have said all along that i don't believe russia is going to invade. there's no incentive for it to an invade. however, today,

i think things have taken a new and very dangerous turn. now, i'm very concerned about this. let's look at the scenario. the u. s. is now set, it wants to pull out it. so a c, e monitors today. the o. s. c monitors and don bassett counted a 400 percent increase in the amount of shelling over the last 7 days. daily average 4 times increasing shelling. here's a scenario. the u. s. has apparently gotten the other countries several other countries to to have to share the panic and to pull their troops or their, their citizens out. if you pull the o s. c e mission, out of don bass, you can have a massive provocation on the part of care of. this is potentially dangerous development. u. s. a sounding increasingly desperate, because everything they throw on the wall doesn't stick. they don't really lose anything. do they? because of russia doesn't invade in russia has said over and over again. it doesn't plan to invade that. what it does want is the united states and nato to give some security guarantees to russia about the use of nate of nato troops or advanced

weapons in ukraine. in other words, prohibiting that in the future. but if a russian doesn't invade now the united states can say c, r r preemptive actions are unifying actions where all of the nato countries stood together, prevented the russians from carrying out aggression. and at the same time, they continue to paint russia here in the united states and in western public opinion as the aggressor is the big threat. this is a very clever propaganda device. so it's kind of a win win situation for american propaganda. i want to bring, you know, to the french capital where ride police are out in force firing, tear gas against freedom, a convoy activists. thousands of people have gathered, inspired by the canadian movements against harsh, over the restriction. it is happening despite a bomb placed by the french authorities with checkpoints set up an armored vehicles on the street. or corresponding charlotte to pinsky reports from the hard lines you

could really see behind me they're all about a 1000 people marching through the streets of paris just on this particular protest . now you may be aware that the freedom comb or the so called freedom convoy was banned by the authorities here in paris. that they poor thousands of vehicles are camped out around the gates of the city because they were not allowed to enter since the friday that has been a massive police operation to troy in stock. march is like this taking place. in fact, there are many, many police out on the street say monitoring neighbor thing in factories stop. it does not have glass 80. and the police were that stopping the protections from taking the route that they had intended to take. we know that there have been hundreds upon hundreds of verbalize asians already from the police, but we heard from the french prime minister on friday that anybody trying to block

the roads in paris would feel the severe consequences of the law. we also heard that from the police authorities here in paris, suggesting that organizes could face prison sentences. i know so fines of several 1000 euros, and i was taking part as well, trying to block roads. i could see that driving license is suspended for a number of years and also face huge fine. so what is all of us are back? well, as we saw in canada, the freedom convoy is a march for liberties people, hey demanding that end to the vaccine pass. this is a pass that regulate who can and who called going to places like restaurants in cafes depending on whether they just recovered from college or whether they have been fully vaccinated in frogs. that means to job something like pfizer biotech plus a booster dose. and as a result of that,

there remains several 1000000 individuals across france, sheila, unvaccinated and furious, weeping, speaking and hearing from some of those you are on the convoy why they are taken wrong. if you yeah, we have been told that in march or april they will abolish health passes. there was that to encourage us to vote. there are a lot of things that need to change to improve the country more. the government should stop taking people for fools around all rights and freedoms of being violated. we have the right to work the to spend and be tax it for you guys, which all the price is going on. not to mention the ridiculous health rules you also, he drives me crazy to see what's going on. i think i told you pasco, almost everything is banned now, but we still have the right to protest. it's the only right we have left. since the very beginning, we have been demanding the removal of a manual micron region. we also want pay arises and tax cuts, especially on fuel know to say that the demands. but this is gone much further than

not what we are seeing, a demand similar to that, what we heard from the yellow vests back in 2018 that there's an issue with purchasing power in france and they want more money spent on public services. so a very general to mon, well, as you can see, the tear gas is coming towards us now launched by the police just behind as they were trying to control the crowd, the crowds attempting to run up a steps and to be able to get past this police comb boy, but he's trying to keep everything in order. would you have to move further now because my gas is coming towards us. as you can see, big big clouds are moving along with the police here forming a barrel cage as they are trying to separate the crowd down. the rest of the crowd has moved all away about to away from the plume of cheese guests that was launched by the police in attempts to control the situation. this call boys been

relatively calm. however, we have seen small incursions between the protesters. i need to police as they truly make their way through paris. and there is another solidarity. raleigh happening in the netherlands truckers are blocking the city center in the hague. they have not lined up outside a government building and are defying a police order to disperse. organizers say they'll continue their protest for at least a week. could team up with similar movements in france and belgium. plenty, the freedom convoy is going truly global. now, with protest springing up in austria really to both countries, i've seen it on swell of public anger, over relentless over district. austria's vaccine rules are the toughest in the world. with all fired the shuttle paid up to $3600.00 europe.

and in canada, where the freedom con boy started a stand off is currently unfolding up the countries busiest border crossing with the u. s. security forces are trying to clear the foster bridge where truckers are blocking traffic on the antarctic side. the problem is declared, a state of emergency, the prime minister is warning of severe consequences. many others say it's a crisis of his own making. you join the protest because you're tired of the coven. you now need to understand. you are breaking laws. the consequences are becoming more and more severe. the deliberate politicization of the pandemic is undermined to trust in our public health institutions and as damage to national unity. the prime minister's opportunism has created 2 classes of canadians, canadians now watch as the rest of the world moves forward ending mandate and removing restrictions. while our government has no clear plan to do the same,

the prime minister has intentionally stigmatized and divided canadians for political gain. the prime minister has stopped basing his decisions on science. he's now basing them on political science, doing whatever it takes to save his own political skin. when will canadians have a clear plan to end the mandates here? just to recap, the movement started in mid january against the vaccine monday for a canadian cross border truckers and has become a nationwide raeleen point for grievances against the government. a judge has issued an injunction allowing police to force protesters from the ambassador bridge . the murder of windsor, ontario says he intends to remove all those demonstrated and hopeful that the vast majority of the protestors appreciate the rule of law. appreciate that the court has agreed to grant this injunctive relief. they've made their point move on, but if they fail to move on, police will have capabilities to move in and help them move out. well,

we went to law a couple of weeks ago and we're here today because we stand for freedom. this is a free country and we should be able to work and travel and congregate with people as we please. my wife is a business owner. her business has been closed for 18 months out of 2 years. i felt it at home. there's people who have lost their businesses, lost their homes, so we understand that pain and we feel it. and since we've been here, and since we've had people, the world is on fire right now. everybody's changing. governments are coming together. they're trying to work through this and that's what we want. well the truckers in ontario has been highlighting the grass roots support their protest is getting from large swedes of the public there while at the same time pointing to other provinces such as alberta, saskatchewan, quebec, which are all starting to rule by colbert, restrictions on vaccine mandates. and activists, and also i said the movement has been a long time in the making. actually been fighting against this for about 2 years. we've got over 400 organizations that have popped up across canada. everything to

do with that providing and allows notice of liabilities in order for people to keep their jobs against these ridiculous government. this case, and i'm going to call them dictates because that's what they are by the police coming on our side. it's happening in droves and we, we don't just have the occupation happening in auto we've, we've also bought in the economic center your, it's ronald and at every other legislature building across the entire country. and we encourage, we encourage market to come out and get it supported this. i mean, this is your freedom in your life and our fundamental life, liberty, security, and property are being infringed upon and it's unacceptable get moving. the program on the court of arbitration for sports will hold a hearing on sunday. in the case of russian figure skater camila volley of the 15 year old has been embroiled in controversy at the winter olympics. this week after it was confirmed, she tested positive for a band substance back in december. she won gold in beijing as part of the russian

figures getting team in the group competition. but the metals are being withheld due to the skeletal decision on the case is expected to come a day before the female skaters, individual competition, where she's favorite, the top, the podium rushes figure skating federation sees it is funding by the t new job plate. we do not doubt the honesty of our athlete. this case requires a thorough investigation because this whole wild story raises too many questions when, well, the international olympic committee has said it will help with the investigation to ensure it quote, proceeds smoothly being that it will take tough action of cheating has proven. we talked to a cardiologist who explained to us how the band substance may have affected camilla oliva. but in your many coaches consult with doctors, he don't see the list have been substances. it seems something like this happened to maria. she rap of with mal tony and what's also important is to try metacity in

effects has not been properly studied. the people under the age of 18, on the one hand, it's a very mild medicine, more like a victim in that there's a whole science studies how medicines should be prescribes for children. because the under 18 group always requires special clinical research athletes. recovery is usually reached to write type of training and physical activity, not with medication. i believe white leslie should be compiled, just give them a list of the products. athletes can take, white lists would have sold the problem. well volley of, as fans have been quick to offer her supports. amid the doping allegations, a russian ice dancer told my colleague nikki aaron, that the 15 year old is continuing to tre on work hard despite the immense pressure . she's now under my experience with my partner with tiffany when we were there, it was only 3 days. and now we had the stress and everything being there. and i can

only imagine how difficult it is to be there for such a long time. and with all the stress of everything going around at the moment, i have so much respect for her and so much love. and i mean, we've been on shows together. ice skating shows and just the dedication amount of work she puts in. it's not just a talent like she is there before. i mean, i think we came like 20 minutes before the show just kind of warmed up a little bit. she was there preparing training like she is an amazing athlete. one thing that's come up in this case it's been flagged as peculiar is the how late the results of the test. and then, you know, it's really strange. it's a long time and there's actually a regulations of how long the test take to to provide then it's, it's strange that its been delayed to such a peculiar date with the so much going on in the media right now. do you think it might be taking a toll on her? she's such a strong person, such a determined person, and even at such a young age are, you know, she has the dedication and you can see that she,

she's there. she's training from what i've heard. she's training well, she's probably limited her social media, whatever to kind of not deal with that and just focus on the skating, which is what she is amazing at. i've heard from so many different people around the world. how, in spite, how amazing her routines were, and they really, truly are memorable, and i think they'll forever be remembered. well, the u. s. has threatened to prosecute russians allegedly involved in the case. although some are questioning why the u. s. doping agency is getting involved itself in the case with more here. study armstrong. now, elliptic metals were given out for politicization. the u. s. would probably make a clean sweep, of course with squeaky clean athletes to the treatment of camille, of oliver says, as proof that washington's political games have found a new playing field this time on the ice. the heads of america's anti doping agency

wants the raj, inc. of act to prosecute the team skate sensation. as more faxes develops, i think the rod jenko fact potentially could come into play if there's a doctor or a coach or state officials, sports official who conspired to dope valley eva than the rod shank of act. fits like a glove because it's an international major competition fast in 2020 the act is named in honor of former moscow anti doping lab chief gregory rochon cove, a man known as doctor death and who allegedly always saw a wide spread doping program in 2014 before fleeing to the u. s, where he was placed on the government protection, his claims had more contradictions than clarity. and then he simply disappeared into thin air. hardly a whiter than white reputation to enforce fines of a cool $1000000.00 or even 10 years in jail. the 1st and only prosecution came last summer. this prosecution is entirely appropriate and puts real cheese

into anti doping enforcement while also setting an example of international cooperation and fair play for future generations. but here's the catch. the law is only used when doping affects us athletes, broadcast and sponsors convenient. you might say, meanwhile, a plethora of top. your sports stars are completely untouched by water jurisdiction . but this all encompassing and overreaching american or 40 on the international stage hasn't gone totally unnoticed. the i o. c and was, are worried about the involvement of the f. b, i and attempts to make u. s. law globally accepted. it is a matter of concern that the intention of the legislation is to per athletes from all $206.00 national olympic committees from around the world who take part in international competition under the criminal code of u. s. law. the world anti doping agency, as well as several governments in international sports organizations remain concerned that the act could have a number of negative,

unintended consequences for the fight against doping in sports around the world. this of course, has nothing to do with a rookie skater wiping the ice with the u. s. team. and that the announcement about alleged doping came after an r o c gold and u. s. silver. that would be too much of a coincidence, especially after test taken in december and now being talked about in february, it looks very strange that it took almost a month for the sample to get from st. petersburg to stockholm. this raises very serious questions for me. it seems like that someone held this probe until the end of the team skating competition in bay jane. i can't remember any previous situation when it took so long for a result. you know, fair play and sport just got together in the 21st century. so whatever america is saying at the moment is not, shall we say, inspired by the spirit of play. it's political. i mean,

these insane new political games depressing to lympics. i mean, it's charged with, with a political current, and everyone knows that. so it's pretty plain to see that the us is trying to create a level playing field, but only when it benefits their own athletes. and while the u. s. may stand at the top of the podium for playing political games. if it stops its posturing and simply played fair, it might win golds without having to prosecute russian athletes. ah, no in neighborhood is safe. that's the alarming morning from new york police officers, after practically every precinct in the city and prevail, the big spike and different types of crime. no neighbourhood has safe. at this rate, we will lose the city by saint patrick's day. only the squirrels are safe. tourists

will never come back. yeah, pretty eye opening stop. $72.00 of $77.00 precincts. have seen crime. shoot up this year with one precinct in the birth of queens. even registering an astonishing 142 percent leap in criminal activity across the city as a whole robberies and re pop increased by rhonda 3rd, shooting their up by 30 percent as well. a free in for american say recent, the funding of police departments is a reason for rising violence across the country. as a whole, voters are particularly against slashing law enforcement budgets and per and vulnerable neighborhoods. a retired u. s. police officer told us authorities have gone soft on crime yet is a very bad issue. it's done in the issue is bail reform. the issue is deals between the defense attorneys and prosecutors. issues, lack of accountability for criminal action is just as simple as at the soft on crime approach. didn't make it

a more aggressive community building bridge. it made it a better access for criminals to commit crimes and get away with it. we saw this in the last several months with these massive retail thefts being not prosecutor on able to be prosecuted because of the high threshold for items to be stolen. so this is nothing new. this has been a very slow frog boiling. in the pot theory we, i've saw this, you know, 20 years ago on us 1st and law enforcement. we saw them getting softer and softer on criminals. and here we are now. so this is, this is to be expected and it's going to go a lot worse. and u. s. law enforcement are making social media headlines to after facebook above the page of a hugely popular comic book about the police. the thin blue line page has more than 1700000 subscribers. facebook also blocked all attempts by the author and his team to use ads on the platform. the comics creator and mike barn told us his work is pro police and liberal tech joins to like the most these publishers are what we

call woke, which means that they subscribe to the new narrative. and when the narrative assistant police are bad, says it's absurd, of course, because civilization depends on the rule of law, ureter for the rule of law, you're not. the police are a necessary evil, big tech. and we know when they are, they are woke as well. and that means should they adhere to the official narrative and the police officers, i know they're good people, they join the force to be a positive force in their community. right? and so they're kind of living the motto, show don't tell, which is it's a principal storytelling, but it's also principle of life as well. that if you feel strongly about a subject or you want to help someone do it, you don't need a new screw following you around. you don't need to make press release and day dad

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